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The joint Allied invasion of Sicily, the first successful attempt to occupy enemy territory, and the precursor for both the invasion of Italy and the later Normandy campaign.

A fascinating lavishly illustrated of these interesting and often overlooked structures - the first history of boathouses in Britain.

An illustrated tour of some of the most significant Cold War locations still in existence today, and what they tell us about Britain's Cold War history.

A highly illustrated closer look at the inside story of the cars that made Aston Martin what it is today.

A superb photographic portrait of the railway route from Settle to Carlisle, one of Britain's most scenic railway lines.

A photographic celebration, mostly previously unpublished, of the bus scene in South and West Wales in the 1960s.

Explore the rich history of Ilkley and the surrounding area in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

A fascinating description of the lost country houses of Nottinghamshire, will be of interest to all those who live in the county or know it well.

A stunning collection of photographs showcasing the diversity and fascination of England's and Wales's football grounds from a bird's-eye perspective.

Explore the East London district of Whitechapel in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

Explore a fascinating pictorial local history of Edinburgh through the sixties, seventies and eighties.

Explore this fascinated illustrated social history of those light keepers throughout Scottish history.

Explore the West London towns of Kew and Brentford in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to their history, people and places.

An accessible history of Taunton from its beginnings to the present day highlighting the town's significant events and people

Michael Burgess tells the story of the oft-forgotten four-wheel Reliant cars. He puts these once popular four-wheeled cars back in the public eye where they belong.

W. B. Bartlett, author of Vikings and King Cnut, turns his eye to the legendary Harold Hardrada in this revealing and entertaining new biography of the most famous Viking of them all.

Using untapped archival material, Heather R. Darsie reveals the real Katherine, a woman in her own right and not a figure defined by the machinations of her husband.

New paperback edition - 'The Little Men' tells the real story of Operation Herrick, unvarnished, from the point of view not of Generals or politicians, but the poor bloody infantry.

A book featuring seaside open-top buses in operation around England and Wales, starting at Southend-on-Sea and then working clockwise around the coast.

Packed with rare and unpublished images, this book celebrates the British lorry and road haulage scene of the 2000s.

The extraordinary rise of the Neville family on the local and national stage, and the life of the most powerful and most famous member of this family Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, The Kingmaker.

New paperback edition - Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats changed the British landscape, and this new book tells the story of his awe-inspiring achievements and innovations as a railway engineer.

A vivid and compelling account of the famous escaped slave Frederick Douglass's tour of Britain and Ireland, 1845-7

Over 1000 years, five groups of Asiatic horsemen conquered the world. In his own attractive style - 'as accessible as it is informative' ('Deus Vult') - Jem Duducu gallops across 1000 years of conquest on horseback.

A Fascinating, thoroughly researched examination of the origins of the British press. Ruth Herman looks at several factors, including the birth of newspaper advertising, political influence over editorial decisions and how the press was licensed and regulated.

In July 1920, when the first Dangerous Drugs Act was passed, the UK drug scene was limited to small groups of Soho night people smoking opium and sniffing coke, and some middle- and upper-class people (mainly women) around the country quietly getting private morphine prescriptions from their GP. Now, exactly 100 years on, we have hundreds of thousands of people using a whole smorgasbord of different drugs. How did that happen?The nineteenth century saw scientific developments whose unintended consequences laid the foundations for the modern explosion of recreational and chronic drug use, which has in turn sparked a worldwide effort to stop it. At first encouraged by the commercial opportunities afforded by widespread 'cures' - many consisting of little more than heroin or cocaine - by the twentieth century a moral crusade had gathered force to curb this new social ill. In truth, although the dangers of drug use were very real, the origins of the war against drugs stemmed from wider fears in society. In this new book, the culmination of a lifetime of research and writing on the topic, Harry Shapiro isolates the different elements behind the war on drugs to present an issue reaching boiling point. Using a range of interviews, documentation, private papers, government archives and studies from the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, Shapiro synthesises a tale of crime, money, politics and exploitation bigger than any country.

A family-authorised biography of Pat Hughes, one of the top-scoring aces of the Battle of Britain.